Friday Freaks roundup #1: What's the matter with kids today?

I'll tell you what's the matter with kids today: adults. I've got a rogue's gallery of bad parents, bad pastors, and bad school systems as evidence.

Babysitter found dead, but kids thought she was just "passed out" because they've seen their mommy passed out before. The babysitter overdosed on the mom's liquid methadone.

Investigators have closed a group home for troubled boys while they check reports that residents dumped a housemate into a septic tank and forced him to sit without pants on a fire ant mound. The victim was 13. [link fixed]

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This one's going up on the 'fridge: SPRING HILL - A 54-year-old Spring Hill woman was arrested Monday after authorities said she used a stun gun to discipline her teenage daughter. The incident occurred about 6:50 p.m. Monday when Gail... [Read More]

The stun gun story? The mother happens to be a patient at the dr I work for in Hernando County. I know the daughter as well. Let me tell you something. I am not an advocate of child abuse...but if you knew this child, you would understand why mom resorted to the tazer...*laugh* The kid is completely problematic, a real hooch. Then again, on second thought, this is probably as a result of having a mother who is dependant on narcotics and would use a stun gun on her boyfriend as a form of foreplay. Ugh. Hernando county...more specifically, Brooksville and Spring Hill, are the armpits of florida. Can someone please win the lottery and get me the hell out of here?